2020 is coming to an end. Brexit’s (apparently) been ‘done’. Covid 19 has certainly not been ‘done’, but vaccines are on the way and there is reason to be hopeful that by the end of 2021 it will be a…
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Why Newcastle United and anti-corruption in the UK have more in common than you ever realised
Posted in Sport
UK reform of confiscation should prioritise bribery, not omit it
The confiscation of criminal proceeds is a key global weapon against corruption, intended to ‘take the profit’ out of the crime – with the aim of returning that money to the public and, hopefully, deterring future corruption. But legal regimes…
Posted in Politics
Let’s make sure corruption does not de-rail the vaccine rollout!
At every turn, and all around the world, the covid-19 crisis has created new corruption risks. As we enter a new phase of vaccine roll-out, CSC Director Liz Dávid-Barrett looks at how corrupt and criminal actors are likely to exploit…
Posted in Uncategorized
Reforming UK procurement: the government’s post-Brexit Green Paper
Professor Robert Barrington of the Centre for the Study of Corruption and member of the government’s Procurement Transformation Advisory Panel, looks at the UK’s new proposals for post-Brexit procurement reform – and concludes that, if they are implemented, the UK…
Posted in Governance, Politics
Happy New Anticorruption Year! Five reasons to be cheerful about Anti-Corruption
Fighting corruption is a tough gig. It requires fighting on many fronts simultaneously, against opponents who often don’t play fair, and it takes a long time. But, on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, CSC Director Liz David-Barrett argues that…
Posted in Uncategorized
A post-Nolan future for Brexit Britain: our letter to the Financial Times
Three Professors at the Centre for the Study of Corruption have collaborated with a group of eighteen professors of governance, corruption and public integrity from across the UK, to publish a letter in the Financial Times. CSC Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice…
Posted in Uncategorized
Regime change and the rule of law: Serbia’s lessons to Montenegro
Montenegro’s new government was voted in on 4 December, heralding regime change after almost three decades (although former prime minister Milo Đukanović remains president). Tena Prelec, Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of…
To fix procurement, the UK has to open it up
Following a recent National Audit Office report that revealed major weaknesses in governance and transparency for the UK government’s covid-19 procurement, Gavin Hayman, Executive Director of the Open Contracting Partnership and Liz David-Barrett, Director of the Centre for the Study…
Posted in Governance
We need to tackle conflicts of interest in UK local government planning
With the UK facing a shortage of housing and the government intending to overhaul the planning process, CSC Director Liz David-Barrett considers what corruption risks affect local government planning decisions. In 2013, I researched and wrote a report for Transparency…
Posted in Governance, Politics
The UK needs to get serious about debarring corrupt companies from public procurement
Currently there are few consequences for companies that subvert public procurement through corruption and fraud. And with government departments often highly dependent on a few large strategic suppliers, there are real risks of moral hazard, where suppliers behave badly because…
Posted in Governance
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